Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb
Charles Lambwas an English writer and essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth10 February 1775
age aging grows
I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
friendship inspiring funny-best-friend
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
men association gains
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
laughing funeral awful
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
fear color beggar
The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
practice enjoy-life theory
My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
mediocrity
We encourage one another in mediocrity.
play grace devil
There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.
school childhood gone
I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
dream children wings
While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.
birthday new-year holiday
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
believe writing men
I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.
book eye modern-novel
Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.
music pain italian
I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!